Reviews
Bob Holz: Holz-Stathis Collaborative
This release climaxes with the tune ‘Lookin’ Back’ and that’s exactly what this amalgam of fusion energy and smooth jazz...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2024
Cannonball Adderley: Burnin’ in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969
Walter Booker | Cannonball Adderley | Roy McCurdy | George Duke | Nat Adderley
The Adderley brothers stayed true to each other, touring and recording together as a quintet under Cannonball’s leadership until his...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2024
Bill Laurance & The Untold Orchestra: Bloom
Bill Laurance | Rory Storm | The Untold Orchestra
It’s 10 years since classically-trained piano virtuoso Bill Laurance stepped out from the long (rather funky) shadow of Snarky Puppy...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: May/2024
Kamasi Washington: Fearless Movement
As the figurehead of the contemporary West Coast scene that achieved worldwide exposure on the back of his 2015 set...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2024
Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek: Luminissence
I’m sure it has been mentioned before, but this Luminessence series of classic ECM re-releases are actually better than the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2024
Art Tatum: Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings
Slam Stewart | Everett Barksdale | Art Tatum
According to his biographer James Lester, it was around the time of this recording that Tatum heard from his doctor...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2024
Johnny Lytle: The Loop
Wynton Kelly | Milt Harris | Johnny Lytle | Willie Rodriguez | George Duvivier | Peppy Hinant
Johnny Lytle remains a relatively unheralded figure in the jazz vibraphone pantheon but on the strength of these two fine...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2024
Cyrille Aimée: À Fleur de Peau
Jake Sherman | Cyrille Aimée | Abe Rounds
Although she’s been composing for years, the French singer-songwriter Cyrille Aimée refers to her latest album À Fleur de Peau...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2024
John Taylor/Norma Winstone/Kenny Wheeler: Azimuth
John Taylor | Kenny Wheeler | Norma Winstone
I’m sure it has been mentioned before, but this Luminessence series of classic ECM re-releases are actually better than the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2024
Cornelia Nilsson: Where Do You Go?
Cornelia Nilsson | Aaron Parks | Daniel Franck | Gabor Bolla
This album is in essence two trios, a piano trio with Arron Parks on piano on six numbers and a...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2024
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